Jojo Gronostay

Jojo Gronostay is a German-Ghanaian artist born in Hamburg in 1988.

In his practice, he deals with questions of identity and representation, platforms, recycling and the in-between.

His work explores the political and economic structures between Europe and Africa and with platforms such as DWMC, he also created a structure for himself to intervene in these cycles. Thereby examining concepts such as economy or value as well as the exchange of people and goods between the two continents.

Gronostay studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

The question of cultural identity is intertwined with autobiographical elements in the multimedia work of Jojo Gronostay (born in Germany with Ghanaian roots). Objects and images of objects and body fragments are decontextualized and presented on an unusual scale, playing on the interrelationships between colonialism and capitalism.

(Source : Paul di Felice)